David Rankin 'Lily in Lodz III' flora Orpheus turns to share the

Orpheus turns to share the moment with his love

Signed: Bears facsimile signature in print lower centre: Romano Stefanelli

Mary MACQUEEN (1912 - 1994)

Condition: Good

'Oasis in the Kimberleys: an homage to the Zebra Rock'

David Rankin 'Lily in Lodz III' flora Orpheus turns to share theThis expansive, poetic portrait is of the writer and artists wife Lily Brett. The Lodz to which the work refers, is located seventy five miles southeast of Warsaw, Poland. It formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland. In 1940, the Germans established a cramped ghetto in the city, in which 160,000 Jews were forced to live. Brett is the descendant of Holocaust survivors. Thus this work, standing at a metre tall and flushed with pale